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Affective temperaments in subjects with female-to-male gender dysphoria
Şenol Turan1, Cana Aksoy Poyraz1, Tuba Öcek Baş2
1Dept. of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Background:
Males and females have different temperaments. In individuals with gender dysphoria (GD) there is marked incongruence between a person׳s expressed/experienced gender and their biological sex. The present study aimed to investigate the most common affective temperaments in individuals with female-to-male (FtM) GD.
Methods:
We performed a prospective and comparative study investigating affective temperaments in subjects with FtM GD. Eighty subjects with FtM GD and 68 female controls were enrolled. The Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Autoquestionnaire (TEMPS-A) was completed by all participants.
Results:
TEMPS-A scores were significantly higher in subjects with FtM GD for hyperthymic temperament (p≤0.001), whereas depressive (p≤0.001), anxious (p≤0.001), and cyclothymic (p=0.028) temperament scores were significantly higher in female controls.
Limitations:
The study was limited by the lack of male-to-female subjects and male controls.
Conclusions:
The results of our study indicate that individuals with FtM GD have significantly higher scores of hyperthymic temperament, measured by TEMPS-A. Biological basis underlying the development of gender identity independent from the biological sex might be related with affective temperaments.
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